This extract from a July 2008 NSA document describes Argentina as GCHQ’s “primary interest” in Latin America: see the Intercept article Britain Used Spy Team to Shape Latin American Public Opinion on Falklands, 2 April 2015.

In this 2008 post from the NSA’s internal SIDToday newsletter the agency claims responsibility for the arrest of FARC member Doris Adriana: see the Intercept article NSA Secretly Helped Convict Defendants in U.S. Courts, 30 November 2017.

This 21 May 2009 presentation from the NSA’s Center for Content Extraction includes a slide that shows that the communications of 122 heads of government were stored in the agency’s central “Target Knowledge Base”, 11 of whom are named. The collection for most of these targets was automated: see the Der Spiegel article ‘A’ for […]

This internal NSA document dated 6 November 2009 describes work the agency has done with a corporate partner codenamed SILVERZEPHYR to develop collection capabilities in Brazil and Columbia: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

This NSA presentation describes the staffing and activities of the Tailored Access Operations sectio based in San Antonia Texas. These included operations against Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Security (codenamed WHITETAMALE), Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela and unspecified targets in the Middle East: see the Der Spiegel article Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit, 29 December […]

After collaboration among Colombia, the NSA, the CIA, and Medina Regional Signals Intelligence Operations Center, Columbian Special Forces ambushed and killed Humberto Valbuena Morales, a commander in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) wanted for kidnappings, bombings, and extortion.

The High Power Cordless Phone Analysis cell was founded in 2003 after use of these "poor man's cellular" phones proliferated in the early 2000s. Analysts with this cell provide training about HPCP communication to other NSA staff, analyze intercepted communications, and develop new tools for working with this technology.

This document lists the 193 governments, intragovernmental organisations and other entities which the NSA was granted the legal authority to intercept communications “about” for foreign intelligence purposes in August 2010: see the Washington Post article Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, 30 June 2014.

The ambassador to Portugal came to Fort Meade, where he received briefings on a variety of topics: operational security, how to read and share information from reports containing signals intelligence, and issues that the NSA is monitoring that could be relevant to his new position, such as European counterterrorism and Portugal’s relationship with African countries.

The NSA targets a “little-known, Europe-based group” known as the Anti-Imperialist Camp, whose “inflammatory anti-U.S. rhetoric” was allegedly paired with aid to militant groups like Hezbollah and FARC. Surveillance of this group “has paid numerous dividends” and resulted in demand by the U.S. government that the Italian government arrest three activists in 2004. Six years later, the activists were cleared of all charges.

The NSA has been monitoring communications associated with FARC commanders and radio operators in an effort to locate three U.S. hostages held after the 2003 crash of a U.S. Cessna plane surveilling coca fields in Colombia.

NSA intelligence indicated that three FARC members were plotting to assassinate U.S. Marines on March 30. The Colombian National Police arrested the alleged plotters. The intelligence came from the Medina Regional SIGINT Operations Center in Texas and the South America Narcotics Branch.

An update about what’s been going on at Fort Gordon at NSA/CSS Georgia, including the third annual Iranian Target Development conference and growth in the counternarcotics mission, including collaborations with the Drug Enforcement Agency and CIA in Afghanistan, and counterproliferation.

On his visit, the U.S. ambassador to Colombia briefed NSA/CSS leadership regarding the environment and issues of the Colombian target worked at the Texas site. During his tour, he put on a headset and listened to Spanish intercepts.

The sixth Korea rock drill raised the issue of information sharing on Korea issues to second parties and beyond. The scenarios addressed non-combatant evacuation operations, SIGINT in a counteroffensive to a North Korean attack, and operations in a newly unified Korea.